Empirical and Normative Without a Universal Human Nature
Empirical and Normative Without a Universal Human Nature
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没有普遍人性的经验和规范
作者：
T. Modood
我支持弗洛伊德的号召，即以一种广泛的希望为基础的政治哲学方法，即“我们可以成功地将某些形式的人类行为视为规范偏好的表达，这些规范偏好已经成熟，可以转化为政治原则”。然而，我对他对社会科学的运用持怀疑态度：它过于选择性，而且是在避免两种社会罪恶的基础上选择的，因此没有回答关于美好生活和基于积极理想和愿望的政体的政治哲学的基本问题。我也看不出，要避免“欧陆”批判理论的规范性超然，就需要假定一种普遍的人性，而这种假定在任何情况下都是不可能的。
I rally behind Floyd’s call to arms for an approach to political philosophy based on the broad hope ‘that we can successfully treat certain forms of human action as expressions [of] normative preferences ripe for conversion into political principles’. I have doubts, however, about his use of social science: it is too selective and is selected on the basis of the avoidance of two social evils and thus does not answer the fundamental questions of political philosophy about the good life and a polity that is based on positive ideals and aspirations. Nor do I see that the avoidance of the normative aloofness of ‘continental’ critical theory requires the postulation of a universal human nature, a postulate that in any case is unavailable.